Sources

Image credits

The images in this section are in the public domain or released under open licenses. Each entry links to the file and names its source.

Antoine Watteau, Pèlerinage à l'île de Cythère, 1717
File: L'Embarquement pour Cythere, by Antoine Watteau, from C2RMF.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: C2RMF: Galerie de tableaux en très haute définition: image page

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV (1638-1715), roi de France, 1701
File: Portrait of Louis XIV of France in Coronation Robes (by Hyacinthe Rigaud) - Louvre Museum.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: [1]

Antoine Watteau, Les Plaisirs du bal (The Pleasures of the Ball), c. 1715–17
File: Watteau, Jean-Antoine - Les Plaisirs du Bal - Google Art Project.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: ygEIIXQmEkmkNA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

Antoine Watteau, Pierrot (formerly Gilles), c. 1718–19
File: Pierrot - Antoine Watteau - Musée du Louvre Peintures MI 1121 - après restauration 2024.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: photo Shonagon 2026-01-02

Antoine Watteau, Mezzetin, ca. 1718–20
File: Jean-Antoine Watteau - Mezzetin.JPG
Public domain · Author/source field: Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (accession number 34.138)

Antoine Watteau, The French Comedians, ca. 1720
File: DP120381.jpg
CC0 / Met Open Access

Antoine Watteau, Die italienische Komödie (The Italian Comedy), c. 1716/17
File: 4931121
Public Domain Mark 1.0

Antoine Watteau, L'Enseigne de Gersaint (The Shop Sign of Gersaint), 1720
File: L'enseigne de Gersaint.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: Château de Charlottenburg

Nicolas Lancret, La Camargo Dancing, c. 1730
File: Nicolas Lancret, La Camargo Dancing, c. 1730, NGA 96.jpg
CC0 · Author/source field: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing (Les hasards heureux de l'escarpolette), c. 1767–68
File: The Swing (P430).jpg
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

François Boucher, The Triumph of Venus (Venus triumf), 1740
File: The Triumph of Venus (François Boucher) - Nationalmuseum - 17773.tif
Public domain (Nationalmuseum open access)

François Boucher, Diane sortant du bain, 1742
File: Diane sortant du bain - François Boucher - Musée du Louvre Peintures NV 2712 ; MN 66.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: photo Shonagon 2024-02-15

François Boucher, Le Déjeuner, 1739
File: Louvre collections image 0000355129
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, 1756
File: Madame de Pompadour.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: Google Arts & Culture

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Progress of Love: The Meeting, 1771–72
File: Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Les Progrès de l'amour - Le rendez-vous - Google Art Project.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: Google Arts & Culture — PwH8sj_E5QhPDQ

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, c. 1769
File: Jean Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, c. 1769, NGA 46303.jpg
CC0 · Author/source field: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Le Verrou, c. 1777–78
File: Le Verrou - Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 1974 2.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: photo Shonagon 2026-01-02

Étienne-Maurice Falconet, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1763
File: PS1_27.387_VwA_DD_T10.jpg
CC0 (Walters)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Allegory of the Planets and Continents, 1752
File: DP-14286-007.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)

Rosalba Carriera, Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume, 1730–31
File: DP161652.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)

Canaletto, Venice: Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità ('The Stonemason's Yard'), about 1725
File: Canaletto - The Stonemason's Yard.jpg
Public domain

Canaletto, The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, 1742/1744
File: default.jpg
CC0 (NGA Open Access)

Pietro Longhi, Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice, probably 1751
File: National Gallery image n-1101-00-000021
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

Dominikus and Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Wieskirche interior (Pilgrimage Church of Wies), 1745–54
File: Bavaria The Wies, Pilgrimage Church of the Scourged Saviour (9812973145).jpg
CC0 (photographer’s public-domain dedication)

Jean-Siméon Chardin, The House of Cards, probably 1737
File: Jean Siméon Chardin, The House of Cards, probably 1737, NGA 97.jpg
CC0 · Author/source field: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National

Jean-Siméon Chardin, La Raie, 1728
File: Louvre collections image 0000135610
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

Jean-Siméon Chardin, L'Enfant au toton, Salon 1738 (Louvre: 1725-1738)
File: Louvre collections image 0000135477
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

Jean-Étienne Liotard, Das Schokoladenmädchen, c. 1744
File: Jean-Etienne Liotard - The Chocolate Girl - Google Art Project.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: Google Arts & Culture — CwHMb7Dvgi2ZaA

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, L'Accordée de village, 1761
File: Jean-Baptiste Greuze - The Village Agreement.jpg
Public domain

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Le Fils puni, 1778
File: Jean-Baptiste Greuze - The Punished Son.jpg
Public domain

Jean-Baptiste Greuze, La Cruche cassée, vers 1771-1772
File: Jean-Baptiste Greuze 001.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: 1. The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distribut

Hubert Robert, Vue de la Grande Galerie du Louvre en ruine, 1796
File: Hubert Robert View of the Grande Galerie in Ruins.jpg
Public domain (photo Musée du Louvre)

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
File: John Singleton Copley - Watson and the Shark (1778) - NGA Washington.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection

William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode: 2, The Tête à Tête, about 1743
File: Marriage A-la-Mode 2, The Tête à Tête - William Hogarth.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: The National Gallery

William Hogarth, Gin Lane, February 1, 1751
File: DP825289.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)

Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs Andrews, about 1750
File: Thomas Gainsborough - Mr. und Mrs. Andrews (c. 1750).jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: National Gallery, London - online catalogue.

Joshua Reynolds, Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces, 1763-65
File: Sir Joshua Reynolds - Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces - 1922.4468 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg
Public domain

Joseph Wright of Derby, The Blacksmith's Shop, 1771
File: YCBA open-access image, B1981.25.712
CC0 (Yale Center for British Art open access)

Johan Zoffany, The Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772-77
File: Johan Zoffany - Tribuna of the Uffizi - Google Art Project.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: hAG9DaPJM3FApw

George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, about 1762
File: Whistlejacket - George Stubbs.jpg
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770
File: Benjamin West 005.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (Lansdowne Portrait), 1796
File: download?id=NPG-NPG_2001_13_ext.jpg
CC0

Charles Willson Peale, Staircase Group (Portrait of Raphaelle Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale I), 1795
File: info.json
Public Domain

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, c. 1734
File: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, c. 1734, NGA 165.jpg
CC0 · Author/source field: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Drawbridge (Carceri d'Invenzione, plate VII), published 1750/1758 (first edition, state i/vi)
File: default.jpg
CC0 (NGA Open Access)

Pompeo Batoni, Portrait of a Young Man, ca. 1760-65
File: DT4577.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)

Anton Raphael Mengs, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), ca. 1777
File: DP120383.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)

Gavin Hamilton, The Death of Lucretia (formerly The Oath of Brutus), 1763-67
File: YCBA open-access image, B1981.25.318
CC0 (Yale Center for British Art open access)

Angelica Kauffman, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, ca. 1785
File: Kauffmann Cornelia mater Gracchorum.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts [1] [2]

Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire, 1778
File: Jean-Antoine Houdon, Voltaire, 1778, NGA 1266.jpg
CC0 · Author/source field: This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National

Antonio Canova, Theseus and the Minotaur, 1782
File: Canova - Theseus & Minotaur.jpg (cropped to the sculpture)
Public domain (photographer’s own release, PD-self)

Antonio Canova, L'Amour et Psyché à demi couchée (Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour), 1787-1793
File: Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour, Louvre.jpg
CC0

Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Invention of the Art of Drawing (De ontdekking van de tekenkunst), 1791
File: Musea Brugge IIIF image 412, 0000.GRO0132.I
Public Domain Mark 1.0

Étienne-Louis Boullée, Cénotaphe à Newton, élévation perspective, 1784
File: A Newton - élévation perspective - projet n° 14 - planche n° 6 - dessin - Boullée (sig.) - btv1b531645749.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Jacques-Louis David, Marat assassiné, 1793
File: Jacques-Louis David - Marat assassinated - Google Art Project.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: 7QGjl9R141MCBw at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

Jacques-Louis David, Le Serment des Horaces, 1784-85
File: Le Serment des Horaces - Jacques-Louis David - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 3692 ; MR 1432.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: photo Shonagon 2025-03-15

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
File: DP-13139-001.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)

Jacques-Louis David, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) and Marie Anne Lavoisier (Marie Anne Pierrette Paulze, 1758-1836), 1788
File: DP-19709-001.jpg
CC0

Jacques-Louis David, Brutus, premier Consul, de retour en sa maison après avoir condamné ses deux fils (The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons), 1789
File: Les Licteurs rapportent à Brutus les corps de ses fils - Jacques-Louis David - Musée du Louvre Peintures INV 3693 ; MR 1430.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: photo Shonagon 2025-05-28

Jacques-Louis David, Autoportrait, 1794
File: Louvre collections image 0001335193
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

Jacques-Louis David, Les Sabines, 1799
File: The Intervention of the Sabine Women - David (Louvre INV 3691).jpg
Public domain

Jacques-Louis David, Portrait de Juliette Récamier, née Bernard (1777-1849), 1800 (unfinished)
File: Juliette Récamier, née Bernard - Jacques-Louis David - Musée duLouvre Peintures INV 3708.jpg
Public domain · Author/source field: photo Shonagon 2026-01-09

Jacques-Louis David, Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand Saint-Bernard, 1800-01
File: David - Napoleon crossing the Alps - Malmaison2.jpg (colour adjusted to the museum photograph)
Public domain (faithful reproduction of a public-domain 2D work)

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782
File: Self-portrait in a Straw Hat by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun.jpg
Public domain

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818) and Marie Marguerite Carraux de Rosemond (1765-1788), 1785
File: DP320103.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, Endymion. Effet de lune, dit aussi Le Sommeil d'Endymion, 1791
File: The Sleep of Endymion - Girodet (Louvre INV 4935).jpg
CC0

Antonio Canova, Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1804-06
File: DP249451.jpg
CC0 (Met Open Access)